"We but half express ourselves and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
We show only half of our greatness in shame of becoming the best we can. We put out half the effort and passion because of being scared to become great. We are scared to show what we can be for fear of failure and embarrassment. We may be timid to try out for a play, a team, a hard class. We may be scared to put out all the effort; or we may be scared to put out the effort and still fail. If one studies all weekend for a test but fails on Monday, they are embarrassed because they did their best and still did not earn the grade. In my own experience, I may not have taken a shot in a water polo game because I did not want to let down my team. Instead I gave the shot to a teammate to shoot. This is the absolute wrong mindset. Self-reliance talks all about being sure of yourself, strong and independent. You should be self-assured enough to take the shot knowing you could miss, but trusting you won't. We, at the Bishop's School, are scared to fail. Being scared just holds us back. Without being scared, we are able to become the best we can be because we know in our hearts we tried and failed. By failing we are able to try again knowing we have nothing to lose. Failing gives us the capability to be great, as weird as that may seem.
2 comments:
Kirsten-
I completely agree. Often we go through life second guessing ourselves. "We are scared to show what we can be for fear of failure and embarrassment." Our fears inhibit us from being this "divine idea." But we will never know how great we can be unless we try and try again. I used to have this soccer coach in middle school who told us to shoot shoot shoot, "take shots on goal." He believed that the only way we will score is if keep shooting, "the ball doesn't just land in the goal." He had the philosophy that after the 8th shot we would score. I like this idea because it's true that failing at something gives us the opportunity to achieve.
Kirsten, I agree with your thoughts. It is ture that in life we doubt ourselves more then we trust ourselves. "We are our own enemy", and its our self doubt and fear that get in the way of achiving our potential. And I completely understand where your coming from when you feel like you should have taken a shot, but didn't. I think its important to have confidence in your abilities. Your talents are contributions to a team, and you can't doubt your capabilities. So far in my 16 years of life, I have leanred that it is more important to make a mistake and learn from it, rather than not make any mistakes for you learn more from your failures then you do your success'.
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